Journeys can be both literal and figurative. We can see the world through travel, but we can also journey without leaving our physical space. Today we speak with international bestselling author, Tess Gerritsen, and musician Emilia Dahlin, about the journeys they each have taken while practicing their craft, and how the melodies of life have influenced their experience.
Guests
Tess Gerritsen
International bestselling author Tess Gerritsen took an unusual route to a writing career. A graduate of Stanford University, Tess went on to medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, where she was awarded her M.D. While on maternity leave from her work as a physician, she began to write fiction. In 1987, her first novel was published. She has since written 26 published novels. Gerritsen won the RITA Award, the prominent romance fiction award, for The Surgeon, and the Nero Award, which honors excellence in mystery novels, for Vanish.Gerritsen’s personal charity work revolves around Alzheimer’s disease, which afflicted her father. She is on her second fund drive to benefit the Scripps Research Institute’s biomedical research into Alzheimer’s treatment. Her first fund drive raised over $50,000, which went directly to Alzheimer’s reachers.
Emilia Dahlin
Emilia Dahlin is a singer-songwriter based in Portland, Maine. Born on a small farm south of Boston to a musical instrument collecting father and accordion playing mother, Emilia was destined for a life of music. She started piano, formally, at the age of five and trained classically for the next thirteen years. It was Christmas day, 1996, when Emilia decided she wanted to play the guitar. She went up to the attic, pulled out a warped and worn guitar that once belonged to her great grandfather, and started to play. She never stopped.